{"id":279,"date":"2007-01-20T16:49:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=279"},"modified":"2007-01-20T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:49:42","slug":"weekend-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"weekend update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the time to do all the last minute rushing around before I head out next week.  After a full day at work last night, we rushed to dinner with friends and then headed out to Karaoke.  There&#8217;s nothing like singing <em>Leaving on a jet plane<\/em> a few days before you actually do toddle off into the great blue yonder.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in weeks the place seemed packed &#8211; ok, there were probably only another 4-5 couples at the bar &#8211; and there was an older gentleman singing a lot of Johnny Cash (amazingly well, if I might add) that really should come out more often.<\/p>\n<p>After bribing my designated sober person to drive me home at 2:30 am we had to clean up the mess the puppies made.  Apparently they didn&#8217;t like being left home alone for so long and proceeded to shred papers and dump garbage in the kitchen. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>This morning has been a blur of shopping and laundry as I try to cross things of my <strong><em>must have<\/em><\/strong> list.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strike>Mosquito repellant<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Anti-malarial prescription<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Hand sanitizer<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>AA and AAA batteries<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Voice recorder<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Small bottle of shampoo<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Q-tips<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Band aids<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Anti-bacterial foam wash and cremes for cuts<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Antacid<\/strike><\/li>\n<li><strike>Sweater bags<\/strike> (plastic clothes storage bags come in really handy when you&#8217;re packing)<\/li>\n<li>Snacks for the plane (I love Sunray fruit snacks)<\/li>\n<li>Tic Tacs<\/li>\n<li>Anti-histamines<\/li>\n<li><strike>Tylenol<\/strike><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now begins the mad dash to get everything into a single bag while staying in the 50 lbs limit.  Ah, the joys of travel.<\/p>\n<p>At least I can put this behind me for a few hours this evening and spend my time watching the Oiler&#8217;s game with some friends this evening.  Good thing we checked our tickets this morning or we could have arrived at Rexall Place a few hours too early for the show.  Oh, and tonight I shall bring my camera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"technoratitag\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/travel\" rel=\"tag\">travel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/india\" rel=\"tag\">india<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/packing\" rel=\"tag\">packing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/hockey\" rel=\"tag\">hockey<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/Oilers\" rel=\"tag\">Oilers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/karaoke\" rel=\"tag\">karaoke<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the time to do all the last minute rushing around before I head out next week. After a full day at work last night, we rushed to dinner with friends and then headed out to Karaoke. There&#8217;s nothing like singing Leaving on a jet plane a few days before you actually do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-vittles-beer","category-where-no-flan-has-gone-before"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}